A requested halt on adult film production in the San Fernando Valley and beyond has been lifted after it was determined that a performer who tested positive for HIV was not infected on set, according to a statement Wednesday by the Free Speech Coalition.

No performers appear to have been infected during production, according to a statement by the coalition, a Canoga Park-based trade association that represents the adult entertainment industry. No other information about the performer was released.

“We can now confirm the positive test by an adult film performer on Saturday was from an exposure in their personal life during a hiatus in filming, and did not in any way compromise or affect the performer pool,” according to a statement from the coalition.

Adult film studios were asked Saturday to stop all production until a performer’s HIV test was confirmed as either positive or negative for the virus. The test came back positive but the performer had last been on-set on March 24, “on the same day as they last tested negative for the full STI (sexually transmitted infection) panel,” according to the coalition’s statement.

The scenes shot did not involve any other actors, according to the statement.

Coalition Executive Director Eric Paul Leue said the performer is working with industry medical advisors and administrators to reach out to those the performer may have been in contact with. None of the performer’s shoots carried a significant risk of transmission, Leue said.

“While we understand that production holds are difficult for performers as well as producers, they are essential to the safety and integrity of the performer pool,’ Leue said. “A production hold is the sign of a functional system protecting adult performers.”

The adult film industry uses the PASS system, which means performers are tested for sexually transmitted diseases and their results are entered into a database. Adult entertainment filmmakers can check on the actors or actresses’ health status. Performers can choose from a network of pre-screened clinics or other providers to get tested in the San Fernando Valley and Las Vegas, Nevada.

But such halts have placed the industry in the spotlight. For more than five years, the Los Angeles based AIDS Healthcare Foundation has worked to pass local and state legislations that require the use of condoms on all adult film shoots to improve workplace safety. In 2011, Los Angeles County voters passed Measure B, which allowed public health officials to enforce the law. But no real enforcement took place. A statewide initiative failed to pass in the November election.

Adult-film production has been halted from time to time by the industry itself when cases of a sexually transmitted infection have either been suspected or confirmed. The last significant halt occurred in 2014.

Although condoms have been required on sets since 1992, the regulations are enforced on a complaint basis to Cal-OSHA. Some production companies do use them, but the still-largely San Fernando Valley-based industry relies on testing performers for sexually transmitted diseases every 15 days for HIV as its standard health protocol. Industry workers say there has been no transmission of HIV for many years. Performers also have said condoms are impractical because of the nature of the work.

“The PASS system has once again successfully prevented any transmission of HIV on a regulated adult set, as it has for over ten years,” Leue said in the statement Wednesday. “We are working with the performer to get them to the resources and treatment to help manage their status, and appreciate their commitment, honesty and participation.”